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Using Lists and Conditions in Correspondence Management to create complex template rules

The Correspondence Management Solution presents unique concepts of List and Condition assets (aka modules), to enable advanced correspondence template design. These asset types allow defining rules for content inclusion, that may be quite complex by using a combination of (nested) Lists and Conditions.

Lists

Lists are a great way to group content, i.e. Texts, Images, nested Lists and Conditions (read on, if you are new to Conditions) together into logical groups. For instance, when you wish to mandate the inclusion of a Text paragraph A with Text paragraph B, you could create List, and include Texts A and B within the List, marking them as mandatory content.

Apart from this, you could also set advanced Styles on Lists, so as to specify if and how the content should be bulleted or numbered, set indentation on individual content, and much more. You could also specify advanced rules for the List to control whether the List can accept more content than what is originally assigned to it (during correspondence creation), or whether content within it can be re-ordered, and so on.

Conditions

Conditions are a great way to specify inclusion rules of content within a correspondence. One could define expressions on control variables (placeholders and/or Data Dictionary elements), such that appropriate content may be selected into the correspondence, based on runtime values of these variables. Content may be Texts, Images, Lists or Conditions (thereby allowing deeply nested conditions).

Conditions are defined similar to SWITCH-CASE statements. Each expression has a result content associated with it. The first expression that evaluates to TRUE is chosen as the result and the content associated with it is included in the final correspondence.

Note that you can choose to return multiple content against an expression by wrapping (grouping) them within a List and then select the List as the result of that expression.